Fun............................

 

..............................the science of naming things.

Stellar Pacman............................?

 

    enlargeable photo and explanation here

Fun with science..................

 

APOD offers the difference between mid-infrared (Webb) and ultraviolet (Hubble).  If you go to the site, you will be offered both a better description and the ability to toggle between the two views.  Much fun. 

Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A............

 

Enlargeable photo and description may be found here.  I love the confidence they project in describing what we are looking at.

The Universe is alive.........................

 

from the APOD site, enlargeable with an explanation.

Fun with..........................

 

.................................the Hubble Telescope:

Here's what...............................

 

.....................................ten million stars looks like.

The wonder and mystery of it all.......

 

description and enlargeable photo here

rare fabric....................

 

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?

-Anatole France

enlargeable image, with description, via

Watching, always watching......................

 

        back story and enlargeable photo here

borrowing........................

We borrow our atoms.
The universe owns them.

The universe borrows our love and wonder.
Those belong to us.

-Jarod K. Anderson

photo via

A coming attraction.......................

 ..................Lots of hype in our part of the world about the coming (April 8th) total solar eclipse.  One of my favorite memories about total solar eclipses was my junior high school reading of Mark Twain's tale, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, wherein our hero, Hank Morgan, outwits Merlin and King Arthur.

image via

Witness.................

 

 The universe is an event, not a place.
 Don't seek to own.
 Witness.

-Jarod K. Anderson

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I still say they are just guessing............

 Explanation: Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and create heavy elements in their cores. After only a few million years for the most massive stars, the enriched material is blasted back into interstellar space where star formation can begin anew. The expanding debris cloud known as Cassiopeia A is an example of this final phase of the stellar life cycle. Light from the supernova explosion that created this remnant would have been first seen in planet Earth's sky about 350 years ago, although it took that light 11,000 years to reach us. This sharp NIRCam image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the still hot filaments and knots in the supernova remnant. The whitish, smoke-like outer shell of the expanding blast wave is about 20 light-years across. Light echoes from the massive star's cataclysmic explosion are also identified in Webb's detailed image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A.

-via the APOD site

Visiting the Astronomy Picture of the Day site........

 ........................will cure you of thinking you've got it all figured out.  Enjoy.

Knowledge.........

 

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

-attributed to Carl Sagan

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Orion and the Running Man...............

 -back story and enlargeable photo here

Surfing...................

 .............................................the APOD site:

Content...........................

 I am content to place humankind at the center of Creation.  We are complex enough, interesting enough.  What we have learned, limited as we must assume it to be, is wonderful even in the fact of its limitations.

-Marilynne Robinson, The Givenness Of Things

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Celestial.............................

 ...................................Pac-man?

    back story and enlargeable photo here